Beehive Hairdo

The bob

1920s film star Louise Brooks sporting a bob hairstyle, later popularized in the 1960s by Vidal Sassoon

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Ancient Coin Dulls Cleopatra's Beauty

Credit: Newcastle University

This ancient Roman denarius coin depicts Cleopatra as a sharp-nosed, thin-lipped woman with a protruding chin.